January Internet Auction

"Official Business" to Gen. Wilmot Gibbes DeSuassure, manuscript endorsement on legal-size orange cover privately carried to Lt. Col. Wilmot G. De Suassure, Reg't Artillery, Charleston S.C.; small opening tears and part of flap missing, F.-V.F.

Estimate  ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦  $100 - 150.

General Wilmot Gibbes DeSuassure (1822-1886) was a Brigadier General in the South Carolina Militia, who served along with the Confederate States Army in South Carolina at various times during the American Civil War.[2] As a colonel, he led his regiment in the occupation of Fort Moultrie and the bombardment of Fort Sumter at the beginning of the war. He was appointed brigadier general as well as adjutant general and inspector general of South Carolina militia in 1862. He commanded part of the Charleston defenses during the Union siege of the city in 1863. He also led his men in opposition to Major General William T. Sherman's march through the Carolinas.

Official Business "O.B." to Gen. Stephen Dill Lee, orange cover endorsed "O.B." Official Business with military address to Officer Comdg. 54th Va. Regt., Lieut. Genl. Lee, Comdg. Corps ; light diagonal crease, still fresh and Very Fine official CSA military use.

Estimate  ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦  $75 - 100.

Stephen Dill Lee (1833-1908) was an American officer in the Confederate Army, politician, and first president of Mississippi State University from 1880 to 1899. He served as lieutenant general of the Confederate States Army in the Eastern and Western theaters of the American Civil War.